Xena walked out of the house putting up a sign to sell out the garbage from the old shack " You know It's strange that you are doing a garage sale when you make reality anchors " Einya said " Have you seen a rich man eat cheap food because it was more filling ? "
" Oh right " Einya put a box of picture frames down " But you are keeping some of them ? " she looked at the door where there was a box sealed tightly " Those antiques have actual anomalous effect , so containing them in a containment should keep them away "
" Would people even show up ? " " It doesn't really matter to me since you can watch it yourself " " I thought you were going to do it ? " " Do you have plans ? " " Uhm no ? " " Then take care of the garage sale " Xena told Einya " But do I get something ? " " How about the money from the garage sale you can get a lot of things with money in this town and you decide the price "
Einya looks at the sign " But it's a garage sale it's all cheap " " I know you can sale anything away for cheap but you take 100% profit since you didn't buy them and you can keep some of these antiques for yourselves take this old retro game that is mostly a word adventure "
Xena put a console game on Einya which had games only about using a chosen action and imagination and about a few buttons to get it working " There are some sandwiches for your body " Einya looks at the paper bag which seems big so she tries to press it down to reveal the amount and stopped looking at the now proven to be a full paper bag .
" Thank you Xena " she turned to see that no one was around . Xena opened the door to a room where reality breakers and anchors were together the breakers were within the surrounding range of the anchors ' New dimension caused by natural anomalies '
Xena started the device " Which reminds me " she went to check on the anomaly from yesterday's encounter " Time to shine little guy " she brought Bravery to the reality breaker " Now then you have a little connection to the nightmare reality time to put you back "
She used the anomaly's connection to its main body to link this reality to the nightmare reality where all fear anomalies " XENA YOU HAVE SOME VISITORS " Einya yelled and Xena pushed a key to a door " Tell them to use the back door "
Xena opened the door and went to monitor Bravery waiting for her guest to enter the door " You must be " " Xena , I am opening a way to the nightmare reality to investigate rather than destroying it so don't act rashly like last night " she advised her guest as they felt their world views shattered that they protect the world from the fears thinking it was something significant .
" This reality is very big I only thought of it but to think you actually contacted an anomaly still connected to it " " What is your goal ? " Xena faced Sirka , Vicki and Jos " Your goal is to save the world and that seems to be hindered by the fact that someone is much stronger than you are . "
Xena held a doorknob as they thought ' That wasn't there before ' she twisted the doorknob and they felt the distance between them and Xena widen " Here is the deal I will remove the anomaly you received since this anomaly is a natural one I can easily remove it " " Wait ! " They tried to run close to her .
" No use resisting just accept being normal that was your goal , wasn't it ? " Sirka pulled a phone " Someone is going to remove the fears from us " Xena struck the three with hypnosis as their days of strange disappeared while the gaps were filled with memories as they fell unconscious .
A door appeared on the ground they lay on as they fell through it when it opened ' Adding them into society will be hard but if I pull a few strings it would be a parallel to what they used to do ' she picked up the phone Sirka used to call the headquarters as she reads the location .
" Another infinity , those thoughts are being split due to the organizing of thoughts on something fear of something , the act , the concept " she open a door to their headquarters as she was prevented to get closer by a group " I see you used the fear of the future and strangers to keep me from getting close "
" What are you planning ? " a screen popped beside Xena showing the three wearing different clothes as well as identities " I erased their history with anything out of the ordinary they have basically been returned back to society as normal people who were lost there is already news about three people missing in the international news and that number is going to increase after I remove all the fears from you "
Xena raised her hands as she sees them cry tears finally free from the horrors they see every day " The fears are at 402 " they all fell down as they fell asleep falling into a location to be found as the number of people missing worldwide increased ' No more other anomaly affected normal people '
She opened the door to return to the reality breaker " You didn't have to tell me where they are " she looks at the portal that opened the gateway to another dimension . She released bravery as makes its way in and followed it as it moves in a straight path to its main body .
' Because it is brave it will keep going straight using brute force to pass any obstacles ' some fears distance themselves from the part of bravery as they ran off " I would feel so safe without anything to fear if I was brave enough " Xena joked .
She collected the fears sending them to a containment room each as her base expands " Why are you doing this ? " a cat said ' Curiosity kills the cat ' " A cat that represents the fear of new experience " " You are correct " " What can I say I am a collector " she contained the cat as it didn't make any resistance .
' I need to start the anchor soon ' bravery continued reaching its main body ' This reality is connected to every fear any fear here would be at its strongest form , if I drop the anchor those fears will turn into all sorts of artwork '
' It will be hard to fight since it is brave , if a small part can weaken a fear it might have the same effects on anomalies with similar traits ' she still plans to use a reality anchor in the end for the Nightmare reality .
" Xena I want more " she put the tablet controlling the drone down " What is it ? " " I really like the sandwich " Xena didn't care how Einya came in " There is a lot in the fridge heat it up yourself " " Okay " Einya shut the door as that disappeared .
' Now for bravery ' she looks at the screen as a primal fear appeared ' Oh no ' she blinks to see herself inside the nightmare reality instead of sitting on a commfy chair at the house " Death ? " she looks at her chest where a sword was stab through as it pulls it out .
A terrifying form of many fears combined together ' Each life is afraid of a change called death but with this much power the change should be the end rather than death ' she gets up as the fear of the end looked at her ' So big does it plan to use the portal to bring an end to everything ? ' " Being afraid isn't a flaw it's a different form of a guide "
She stepped back as a blade fell that should've killed her " A fear can be a weapon " she grabs the fear sword as more things could end her approach to kill . She tilts her head as they all missed her " Being afraid of a bullet means to avoid so you're not essentially able to kill me if I am afraid being brave means to take on all attacks "
She remains calm at all times continuing to talk as End tries to take her down " You can't end me if I avoid you . A terrible future can be prevented with the right actions " she moved and moved for any attacks to miss her " That's why I sent a drone instead of myself "
She looks at End as more fears it is fused with are being used by it ' I should concentrate on taking it down but if I weaken it too much I might cause suicide around the world ' she kept dodging not intending to hurt it as she looks at bravery .
' These kinds of anomalies are annoying to deal with but ' she stepped on the ground to resurrect a forgotten fear from long ago of a plague .
' Hopefully I don't reawaken an instinct ' she threw the forgotten fear at End ' It's working ' she's gonna have to bury that fear back down the cemetery of the nightmare reality before it enters everyone's dreams .
Many fears escaped End's hold turning it into a simple void " what a pity " she proceeded to bravery which has been weakened and picked up the lost fear killing it as it falls into the "Soil" " Maybe I'll turn this place into a farm I'll have to fix the fears instincts first though . "
Xena turns to a door seeing a happy Einya " I got money " " You are very dedicated to telling me that you actually opened the door to this other dimension " Xena followed bravery as Einya followed her " Are you going to use this place to control the world ? " " No people have to come to terms with their own fear the fear anomalies only prey on humans to get stronger "
" Where does that come from ? " " I try not to make logic out of anomalies , anything I have knowledge of anomalies are based on my experience " " Isn't knowledge always based on experience ? " Einya asked " You're right best to keep it that way " they followed Bravery as they continued talking .
" So if a fear is killed here the world will forget about it ? " " Yes which is why there are always things we can't kill and as long as it still exists that fear will just come back to life " Einya nodded looking at some strange things that are attached to the ground .
" What's that ? " " A fear about to be grown " Einya looks at it as if she was witnessing the happy growth of something " Are you going to contain them ? " " No I will only keep them from making changes to the fear around the world that way only the actions of normal people will change their strength "
" How ? " Xena looks at the terrifying hellscapes " I have my ways I built a reality anchor and breaker . And learned to use anomalies so I have a bunch in my arsenal to use . " Xena stopped giving Einya the feeling that something is about to happen " Also you have to go back It is early but you can't be staying here "
" Why ? I can protect myself " " I'm not worried about that I left a kettle to boil I don't want to clean the mess " there was a pause to assess the ridiculously simple problem " Just for that ? " " It's called taking care of yourself having these kinds of bad habits would be horrible "
" Okay can I at least come here ? " " After I change the nature " " But what about the anomalies outside ? " " They'll be affected and returned I was just leaving them out so it will be easier to work in this "
Einya nodded and left with a door and Xena finally found the main body of Bravery ' Ugh a headache ' " I really need to sleep properly " she rubs some stone-hard medication on her head while activating the anchor that was left in the drone ' This bravery would be a problem '
She looks at the anomaly in the form of a typical fearless hero ' Or that's just a perspective ' " What are you ? " Xena looks at Bravery " If this is an incarnation of bravery are you supposed to save people from these monsters ? " Xena pointed at the many primal fears .
" They leave this dimension and hurt people to get stronger " " And your idea to fight them is ? " " Kill them they will just come back to life here " Bravery pointed at a plant that caught Einya's attention " I killed that and buried it here but they will always go out to wreck havoc " Xena listened to Bravery rambling .
" They are animals I will keep getting stronger again and again while they are weakened so they can no longer harm normal people " Xena didn't have any changes in expression since she has already decided what to do " I have been gathering other bravery to cancel their power getting stronger it's only time before I am able to keep them from harming normal people "
A sword manifested from the nightmare reality's soil " Are you getting in my way " Xena played with the sword holding the handle and moving the blade around as she points it at Bravery who was prepared to fight . She lets go of the sword as it floated before she swipes above its handle making it spin and disappeare .
" I think so " Bravery fell as the sword bled his head and Xena picked up his body " I can trace where these kinds of anomalies are incarnated " she puts a tracker as the anomalous traits disappeared ' Now then ' she turns to the fears and smiles .
She drops the reality anchor as they attacked . The influence of the anchor spread to deny the strange and unrealistic attacks as their momentum is lost falling into the ground ' The anchor is working well ' she checked the nature of this dimension .
' I'll use the anchor to change the nature to keep all the fears trapped ' The reality anchor is meant to keep reality from changing eliminating anything that can't possibly exist from messing with the reality . Of course , the breakers do the opposite which is to break the natural laws since it is in its name .
But the anchor has settings to identify what should exist and what shouldn't . So all Xena had to do was change the settings and activate the anchor past the limits ' This is the right settings ' she activated the anchor as a wave of its influence spread .
The fears that tried to attack her shrunk and looked confused like a newborn baby " Come here " they didn't know what to do and ran to Xena as she pets the death fear " Not so scary at all " she plays with Death as it laughs and coos " So adorable " she lets Death down .
' The dimension is much safer and harder to get in but the fear should have no problem ' The anchor has now changed due to the settings but still kept its original function .
The nature of the nightmare reality has changed , Fears can't eat each other now but eat pure forms of fears that root out from the reoccurring fears that happen to normal people . You wouldn't be afraid of death if you don't know that is how you become afraid of something by knowing about it .
' With this change , this dimension has no more influence on the change of fears it will all be done by actions outside . ' Death kept eating the fruits that sprouted while War also did the same devouring more and more .
These fears will grow stronger but can't eat other fears only die out once they ran out of a source for food . Just like an old plague as long as it is never told the fear will slowly die out . But the fear will come back once the plague it is connected makes an appearance and terrorizes the world .
" I should leave " the anchor slowly turns into a giant tree to hold the nightmare reality together so that no one can get through it other than fears . Xena walks back out with Einya holding a paper bag " I got so much money " she said and Xena looks at Ley , Devin , Karl and Marie .
" And what about you four ? " " Are you a witch " Karl asked receiving a chop on the head from Devin " You look so good in that outfit can I get a selfie ? " Marie asked as Xena nodded and Ley asked " Can I go in ? " " Sorry I just finished some renovations don't want a mess your granny told me about you , I already sold everything that was old and package the trash . "
" Wait what about the mines ? " Ley asked " Oh that place I send a lot of things away especially some dust had to repurpose them rather than package them " ' Of course I did I can't let him say anything about the anomaly I destroyed '
Behind the front door was a reality anchor stopping the anomalous items that Ley is equipped with from functioning ' It's not working ? ' " I still have breakfast to eat "
" Delivery " a man yelled and Xena looks at him . She walks to pay the money while Ley risked it and walked inside " Hello " Einya waved at him keeping her cool ' Nothing ? ' he waved back and left the house looking at the frown Xena was making .
" Also don't go to the mines it's under new management , but even so you shouldn't be going in with all the minings before and how mmuch poisonous dust is inside " she closed the doors and went to her computer ' Tracker connection stable and location is not within physical reach . '
The computer shows two boxes one for the computer's location and another box for the location of tracker . Both boxes have different colors that indicate the dimensions ' It's heavily connected to the nightmare reality ... you do need to be fearless and if there is nothing to be afraid of what is stopping you '
The tracker started to split as all the bravery was split from the previous incarnation . Xena went to the nightmare reality using a door as fears gathered around her ' Right I still have that thing to figure out ' she closed the door and looked at the status of the connection .
' As expected it's much stronger in here ' Xena said as she looks at the connection status given to her by a tablet ' I'll have to be careful though ' she goes to the anchor where there were lesser fears to worry about passing other fears while stepping on the branches that are connected to the anchor .
She reaches the anchor and takes out a reality breaker ' The connection is most stable here ' she activates the breaker and opens a portal to the dimension for the bravery anomalies ' Most of their ability is to deny something to be fearless of death means to not have death affect them '
Xena was lucky she has a reality anchor to stop it in case Bravery had it ' It looks like it's open ' she walks in and searched for the weak point so she can have the reality anchor secure this dimension , Xena draws pyramid frames and filled the triangles with colors .
The frames solidified turning into a full functioning machine . She connects the device to her tablet adding a file that works as a sensor on the new device " Now go " the pyramid made its way out to reach the nearest weak point to send the data back to the tablet ' With so much to be afraid of in the real world it means more opportunities to break out '
She checks on the conditions of the nightmare reality which is much stronger due to fears being born first before any bravery of the related kind would . The fears can get out and not break the nightmare reality because the dimension is connected to the fears of people feeding on it the same way fears do .
The more people to fear Death the stronger Death is that's why the nightmare reality isn't as broken as the dimension where bravery anomalies are born . And Bravery anomalies get stronger as their host is much braver . If they aren't scared of death the stronger the ability to not die is .
So you really have to be very ignorant and stupid to do this not knowing about death means you don't have to fear it , which is why they say "Ignorance is bliss" . But it means that they have to break through the barrier of this dimension to find that host they may be the combined fearlessness of many people against something but they will be affected once they acquire a host .
Meanwhile , Fears are different their strength depends on how much surrounding people are afraid of them . Because the word bravery means to be fearless of something no matter how they are killed they will always come back as long as there are people who aren't afraid .
Even if the fear of a virus is dead completely the bravery of the virus will still be alive since you are not exactly afraid of something that doesn't exist or is mentioned anymore . But this kind of bravery wouldn't have any power since the virus doesn't exist anymore as there is no way to resist it if it doesn't exist but it will still be alive , unlike the fear of that forgotten virus .
The only way to kill a bravery completely is if there is no hope to fight against the virus " I'll just name this place Valor it does mean courage " she commands the reality anchors to fly to the weak points . She sits on a chair making sure that the reality anchors would fuse all the bravery .
' There is nothing to be gained in here too much bravery would be bad due to the endless production of these anomalies ' Xena told herself as the reality anchors sealed the dimension bringing many bravery back inside ' I can test that prototype magnetism it isn't as great as Old woods '
Xena retrieved a machine that would mimic Old Woods magnetism using the three guests' abilities from yesterday as a base . The machine flew to a location according to calculations made by Xena ' Now I can just watch it maybe it will be fun '
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" Chayce are you seriously going to see if money doubles with that mirror ? " Darya asked " How do you cook this ? " Letty asked Tri " Uhm that cookbook teaches me " there was a floating cookbook that is showing the instructions as well as helping , making the kitchen tools function exactly as what is written .
" Don't you have parents ? " " My parents are gone I saw them look very sick I tried to tell them but they died " Tri said showing a picture frame " everything looks really scary my food looks very bad and sometimes looks like a flower so Xena told me how to stop it and showed me these "
Tri showed a casing that had contact lenses " Xena said that these will make me blind on the two eyes , she said my eyes are connected to time only my left eye is normal " " So you can see the future ? " Letty asked " Yes , Xena said that the future can always be changed "
She points at a pot that is hit by the sunlight " She said that if it will rain tomorrow then the plant won't be watered since it's not outside , so if I put it out the rain will water the plant , she says that some actions can't affect the future " Tri opens faucet water letting the water spill on the sink .
" Even if I use a lot of water it will still rain tomorrow , But then she said that I can help someone get out of the rain so they won't get wet " " That sounds very nice to do " Letty said " Ugh mirror me is not letting me get the money " Chayce pushed the indestructible mirror .
" I told you " Darya told him " And even if you do have a duplicate it will make you a fraud , the numbers are always different so they would suspect you " Chayce gave up and takes the bill putting it back in his wallet .
" Breakfast is ready " Tri puts food down for the anomalies at home and Letty puts the food for the four " At least the food is good " Chayce eats breakfast with the three girls " Is there some fun games at least ? "
Tri looks at the chessboard " Here " she puts the empty chessboard as pieces appeared to replicate a scenario " Oh you're supposed to get out of this situation and win " Darya said to make sure that the stupid Chayce understands the game .
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' Yeah , I didn't think it would be this powerful ' Xena looked at Valor that was being constructed and a bravery to not fear emotions has forced every other bravery to get stronger by eliminating the emotion leaving indifference .
Xena looks at the reality anchors that were keeping Valor the fusion of all bravery from affecting the real world ' I can't let this affect the real world and it's my fault for not considering this '
Xena kicks the reality anchor down the floating Valor as it stops all of its negation abilities and falls ' This would certainly be a great weapon ' Xena picks Valor up and chooses a form turning it into a small jewelry " Huh not much of a fight " she was glad that it didn't gain sentience or she will have another powerful sentient anomaly .
She looks around and realized something " I forgot " the dimension was collapsing now that she has stripped its purpose . The ground starts to crack as erosion took over turning any exposed surface to dust slowly " Time for a test drive "
She searches for the desired fear " Found it " she selected the ability to brave erosion , end , death and destruction activating Valor and the process was slowing down " Ugh guess I'll have to partially activate it "
she activates the reality anchor to keep Valor from influencing her and chose the indifference of emotions as the entire dimension was fixed slowly again with life sprouting .
" Right I shouldn't have used the bravery for death then " she was not going to use Valor to brave out Life that may kill her so she let the red gem Valor float to sustain the dimension " At least no more being brave and reckless " she sighed as she exits the dimension .
She walks to the couch and fell down ' I really have to take a nap ' " Xena you're back aren't you gonna eat breakfast ? " " Nah I think I'll just have a bigger lunch later on , I just went to two dimensions and took care of two problems " Einya looks at the meal Xena ordered " Can I have it ? "
" Yeah heat it up if you want " " Thank you " Einya ran to take the meal to heat and eat ' Einya's previous form has some history that guy Ley and those three kids are related ' Knock knock " Who's there ? " Einya went to check to see an old man .
" Just an old man visiting his grandfather's house " " Xena someone who used to live here is visiting " ' This was eventually gonna happen anyways '
" Tell them they are not allowed to come in old people like these will always demand things like the renovated house " Einya was conflicted even if she had all kinds of knowledge she hasn't experienced life so she feels like she did something wrong turning down the old man .
" Sorry , Xena said she doesn't want guest " the gramps left and thinks about meeting Ley's grandma " Oh it's been a long time you used to be such friends with my husband " " Yeah I heard he passed away " " Don't give me that look I have been enjoying taking care of my family they left but sometimes calls and visits to tell stories . "
He looks at the house as his anomaly detection reacted to many of the objects " Ley was such a nice child I wished that the new owner of your grandfather's old house would marry him that child has no hopes of getting married " " Heard anything about her ? " " While she is rich that is for sure she got the house renovated "
' I need to roam around town for the items ' " She was also generous to sell the items inside and very conscious about the environment like that abandoned mine is being cleaned by some people she ordered " ' I have to stop her but normal people would think that I am crazy '
Grandpa thinks of a way to convince Xena to stop the operation as he walks to the path back to the town " Gramps ? " Karl looked at their grandfather " Oh so this is where you you said you were gonna take a trip "
" Yeah gramps , to be honest , low expectations but its actually a nice town " Marie said " There's a hot girl and a cute girl at that house a little weird but the food is actually good and cheap too " Marie continued while Gramps looks to search for Devin who is with Ley at the mall .
" Where's your brother ? " " He's at the mall , which I didn't expect until they said that they were gonna buy hunting tools " Marie said " Gramps this place is creepy at night be sure not to go around , also I'm hungry and why are we here ? " Karl asked Marie
" To visit the house Duh I have to figure out that girl's skin routine " " Can I tag along ? " " Uhm okay ? " Marie was a little suspicious but went with it as they walked back to the house .
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Xena struggled to get up and went to grab a sandwich that Einya made for her from the leftovers she had ' I should've ordered chicken instead of noodles ' she looks at the TV and opens it to listen to the international news " Don't jump sir " she watched police trying to keep a person from jumping off the bridge .
' Interesting ' she looks at the digital clock that shows the time this was being recorded ' Good thing I fixed the problem before it happened ' she checked other news channel and the situation was not the same as many committed suicide and many else was convinced .
' That was very dangerous these natural anomalies really show cause and effect ' she sighed and turns the TV channel to another looking at the boiling eggs ' Now I'm in a mood for eggs ' she walked to the kitchen " Einya do you want to try any egg dishes ? "
" Devil eggs ? " " Okay " the cabinets moved dropping the condiments on the table and Xena puts all the eggs in a pot for a hard boil ' The mixture shouldn't be too hard ' the house helped flicking the sauce to a bowl .
' Then for frying the whites and peeling it ' " Einya come and help me " Einya looks at the kitchen " Why are we preparing lunch early ? " " No we are just loading that fridge with snacks" Xena points at the fridge which freezes time once it was closed .
" Oh " " You will help peel the eggs while I separate them the whites will be fried and the yolk will be mixed to load them " " Can we make fermented eggs ? " Xena looks at the pot and made it bigger .
" Put more eggs inside what do you want to make ? " " Uhm pickled eggs and can we put quail eggs ? " " Then you may as well put an ostrich egg " Einya looks at the giant ostrich egg that looks too big to be in the pot .
" Put it over the fire at the highest heat I'll figure out what to do with it " Einya looks at the egg that looks really big on the stove " You really like eggs " " Because it's easy to cook and simple I even have century eggs , salted eggs that I can eat "
" They sound delicious " Einya said and Xena continued " It is also a break from all the weird things I also like meat but I don't like the overly complicated dishes I don't want to waste more brainpower than I already had "
" Are anomalies hard to understand ? " " They are dangerous to understand , especially with how they function but enough of that the water is boiling lower the heat and make sure the water doesn't spill . "
" What about the quill eggs ? " Einya turned down the heat asking " You can cook them on the auto cooker but you will still be the one to peel them " Einya nodded and went to grab the eggs while the door rang .
Xena made sure that the reality anchor starts to work or she would be framed as abnormal by her strange accustomed guest .
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